Dec 17, 2017 The Filipino Times
"Typhoon Urduja leaves thousands homeless days before Christmas in PH"
(Link)
Dec 24, 2017 Anadolu Agency
"Philippines: Deaths from typhoon Vinta more than 200"
(Link)
Jan 11, 2018 Aljazeera
"DRC floods leave 45 dead, thousands homeless"
(Link)
Jan 17, 2018 Earth Chronicles
"Consequences of the tropical cyclone Ava in Madagascar"
(Link)
Jan 22, 2018 The Weather Network
"Highway 101 reopens as California mudslide toll climbs to 21"
(Link)
Jan 26, 2018 Curbed
"Paris transit stations and roads close as the River Seine floods"
(Link)
Disaster Management Collaboration Dialogue Workshop between Myanmar and Japan was held in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar on 23 and 24 January, 2018.
The workshop was based on the MOC (Memorandum of Cooperation) in the fields of Water Resource Management, Water-related Disaster Management, and Climate Change Adaptation between Myanmar (Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, Ministry of Transport and Communications, and Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement) and Japan (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT)).
More than 100 people from the two governments, private companies, and the related agencies attended. The themes of the workshop were; sediment control of dam reservoir contributing to operation and maintenance, flood forecasting and warning, maintenance of river navigation by sediment management, and priority of actions for collaboration in disaster management.
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